Jennifer S. Singh Multiple Autisms: Spectrums of Advocacy and Genomic Science 9780816698301

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Автор: Jennifer S. Singh
Название: Multiple Autisms: Spectrums of Advocacy and Genomic Science
ISBN: 9780816698301
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

История Америк

История нового времени до 20 века: с 1700 по 1900

История 20 века: с 1900 по 2000

Социальная история и история культуры

Индустрия туризма

ISBN-10: 0816698309
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 296
Вес: 0.45 кг.
Дата издания: 01.12.2015
Серия: Routledge/leiden series in modern east asian politics, history and media
Язык: English
Издание: Ace special 25th ann
Иллюстрации: With figures in colour and in black and white; 80 illustrations, unspecified; with figures in colour and in black and white; 80 illustrations, unspecified
Размер: 216 x 140 x 38
Читательская аудитория: Postgraduate, research & scholarly
Ключевые слова: Disability: social aspects,History of medicine,Autism & Asperger’s Syndrome, MEDICAL / History,PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Autism Spectrum Disorders,SOCIAL SCIENCE / General,SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities
Подзаголовок: Transmitting and transforming knowledge and culture in liberal arts education for the future. selected proceedings from the fifteenth annual conference of the association for core texts and courses
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Is there a gene for autism? Despite a billion-dollar, twenty-year effort to find out-and the more elusive the answer, the greater the search seems to become-no single autism gene has been identified. In Multiple Autisms, Jennifer S. Singh sets out to discover how autism emerged as a genetic disorder and how this affects those who study autism and those who live with it. This is the first sustained analysis of the practices, politics, and meaning of autism genetics from a scientific, cultural, and social perspective.In 2004, when Singh began her research, the prevalence of autism was reported as 1 in 150 children. Ten years later, the number had jumped to 1 in 100, with the disorder five times more common in boys than in girls. Meanwhile the diagnosis changed to “autistic spectrum disorders,” and investigations began to focus more on genomics than genetics, less on single genes than on hundreds of interacting genes. Multiple Autisms charts this shift and its consequences through nine years of ethnographic observations, analysis of scientific and related literatures, and morethan seventy interviews with autism scientists, parents of children with autism, and people on the autism spectrum. The book maps out the social history of parental activism in autism genetics, the scientific optimism about finding a gene for autism and the subsequent failure, and the cost in personal and social terms of viewing and translating autism through a genomic lens.How is genetic information useful to people living with autism? By considering this question alongside the scientific and social issues that autism research raises, Singh’s work shows us the true reach and implications of a genomic gaze.
Дополнительное описание: Disability: social aspects|History of medicine|Autism Spectrum Disorder

Multiple Autisms: Spectrums of Advocacy and Genomic Science, Jennifer S. Singh